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OUR TRAVELS

IN JAPAN PART 14
Stephen and Anthony Grey.

Miyajima Island & Itsukushima Shrine

Stephen and Anthony have been keeping Koi since
2003 and have been visiting Japan since 2006, more
recently visiting southern Japan. As well as visiting
Koi breeders and their farms they enjoy the adventure
of travelling around and exploring the sites Japan has
to offer.

This our fourteenth instalment of our series of articles
‘Our Travels in Japan’ following on from our thirteenth
Stephen and Anthony Grey.
article in issue 62. If you have not already done so,
please read our first article in issue 27.

In this article we explore Miyajima Island which is
located in the Hiroshima Prefecture.
Located in Takamatsu and travelling further north to
Osaka, we planned a day excursion further south to
visit Miyajima Island and the famous Itsukushima
Shrine floating torii gate. As the torii gate had been
totally surrounded by scaffolding due to renovations
for around 4 years.
So, an early start, up for 6:00am to catch our first train
at 7:08am the Marine-Liner from Takamatsu Station to
Okayama arriving at 8:15am, then having 10 minutes
to navigate to our next platform to catch the 8:25am
Hikari Shinkansen to Hiroshima Station, arriving at
9:04am. The evening before in Takamatsu we had
been to the train ticket office and reserved our seats
for the train journeys, which were all covered by our
JR Passes and made the whole process much easier.
The five storey pagoda’s
distinctive architecture Once we had arrived at Hiroshima Station, for ease of
contrasts with the skyline. moving around for the day we stored our cases in a

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